"I gave her £5 and she got up and something fell out of her book. It was a card addressed to mum and dad. She went off to get a drink and when I looked up she didn't go left to the drinks bit, she went right. I said 'Harni, look at the balcony'. Ourexplains more about how we use your data, and your rights.
Earlier the inquest had heard how Hannah, a former pupil at Manchester High School … "She stood on a chair then a table then I just saw her legs go down the glass. "He leapt up and ran after her. I couldn’t do anything. John Lewis, in the foreground, is beaten by a state trooper during a civil rights voting march in Selma, Ala., on March 7, 1965. Hannah Bharaj, 20, died of "catastrophic injuries" after falling from the first-floor balcony in John Lewis in Cheadle, Stockport, on July 12 last year. President Donald Trump took more than 12 hours to acknowledge Lewis’ death … You can unsubscribe at any time.TRAGIC: Hannah Bharaj, 20, died after jumping from a first-floor balcony, an inquest has heard (Pic: FAMILY HANDOUT)HEARTBROKEN: She was grieving after two family deaths in the space of a few months (Pic: FAMILY HANDOUT)STRUGGLING: Hannah was suffering with anorexia and depression (Pic: JUSTGIVING)SUICIDE: She jumped to her death in July last year from the John Lewis balcony in Cheadle (Pic: GOOGLE MAPS)DEVASATATED: Hannah told her parents she was getting a drink but walked towards the balcony (Pic: JUST GIVING)DISORDER: At her worst, Hannah was consuming just 500 calories (Pic: FACEBOOK/HANNAH.BHARAJ) The incident took place at the John Lewis store in Cheadle ( Streetview ) The 60-year-old plummeted around 60ft from the upper floor of the shop on Wilmslow Road in Cheadle on Monday. On the evening of her death she was visiting the first floor cafe in Giving evidence, Mr and Mrs Bharaj told of the horrifying moment Hannah, from Bolton, got up from the corner table they shared saying she was going to buy another drink before ‘walking briskly’ to the balcony 20ft away.Mrs Bharaj said: “We went to the Priory to pick Hannah up at about 6.15pm. She had a good group of friends at university and they would go out socialising but at home she would be very stressed and anxious and just not quite the same.”Hannah began a ‘fanatical’ exercise regime combined with a ‘low calorie high protein’ diet.She became ‘obsessional’ about food, weighing everything she ate and refusing to allow her parents cook for her.Eventually she was consuming just 500 calories a day, about a third of the recommended intake for an adult woman, and lost a ‘significant amount of weight’.Mrs Bharaj said: “I think she felt everything in her life was out of control, so the only way to get on top of it was to control everything in a regimented fashion.
She went off to get a drink and when I looked up she didn’t go left to the drinks bit, she went right. Ourexplains more about how we use your data, and your rights. Hannah Bharaj, of Waterslea Road in Bolton, died in hospital from “catastrophic injuries” after falling from a balcony at the John Lewis café in Cheadle in July 2018. I watched her fall. Like the weather, the Daily Star's FREE newsletter is a scorcherHannah Bharaj, 20, died of "catastrophic injuries" after falling from the first-floor balcony in John Lewis in Cheadle, Stockport, on July 12 last year.An inquest on Tuesday heard the Birmingham University medical student was a "high-achieving perfectionist" — but her life started to "unravel" after the deaths of two close family members.When she died, she had been a residential patient at the nearby Priory psychiatric hospital, seeking treatment for anorexia and depression.On the day of her death, she was at a cafe on the first floor of John Lewis with parents Harnovdeep and Sarah.Giving evidence, the grieving mum and dad described the horrifying moment their daughter, from Bolton, Greater Manchester, got up from their table saying she was going to buy another drink.Instead, she started "walking briskly" towards a balcony 20ft away.Her mum said: "We all had a drink. "I think I knew she was walking towards the balcony. I was about to grab her.
We would tend to go to the upstairs cafe in John Lewis because it stayed open later. She walked briskly, it was very measured. "She stood on a chair then a table then I just saw her legs go down the glass.”Mr Bharaj added: “I ran towards her. More than 1,400 coronavirus-related fatalities were reported in the US on Wednesday — roughly one person for every minute of the day — marking the country’s worst single-day death rate since …
I screamed 'please, anyone call an ambulance'.”Mr Bharaj said he believed the fall was a ‘deliberate’ attempt to take her own life.Earlier the inquest had heard how Hannah, a former pupil at Manchester High School for Girls, was a ‘tremendously hard worker’ who could be ‘quite tough on herself’.Her parents said she would set herself ‘very high standards’ and could get ‘very distressed’ if she didn’t meet her targets.A gymnast, dancer and swimmer, Hannah did ‘fantastically well’ in her GCSEs, and set her sights on a career in medicine, eventually applying to study at University of Birmingham.She went on to get an A*, two As and a B at A-level.Initially, the grades weren’t good enough to get on the course, and Hannah ‘considered herself a failure because of the B’, Mrs Bharaj said, but eventually the university did offer her a place.But in her first few weeks in Birmingham Hannah’s grandfather, to whom she was ‘very close’, died.Hannah, who felt the late offer of a university place left her unprepared and was struggling to adapt to life as a student, found the death ‘very difficult’.Mrs Bharaj said: “It was almost like a secret life. I gave her £5 and she got up and something fell out of her book. Rep. John Robert Lewis, a Georgia Democrat and civil rights icon, died Friday. "I think I knew she was walking towards the balcony.